Seminar: UCSD-Monash Undergraduate Exchange - Primed for Research (Student Presentations)

Date and Time: Wednesday 20^th August at 10am

Place: Room 135, Building 26 Monash Clayton (CSIT Seminar Room)

Abstract

Over the past five years, the PRIME program has sent   students from theUniversity of    California, San Diego to Pacific Rim   countries such as Japan, Taiwan, China, and Australia to participate   in an intensive nine week summer research program. Each of these host countries are part of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid   Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), a group of leading research   organizations around the Pacific Rim collaborating on advancing grid   technology applications. Overall, PRIME prepares undergraduate students for the global research and industrial workplace by taking advantage of the revolution in science and engineering through   cyberinfrastructure. This program has continued with the support from the NSF and CALIT.   (http://www.calit2.net/) This year seven    students have been hosted by the Monash e-Science   and Grid   Engineering Lab (Message Lab) in the Faculty of Information Technology. Message Lab is part of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering (DSSE). The students will present brief summaries of their work in Message Lab.

Projects undertaken this year have encompassed a number of bio medical and engineering areas, within a strong computer science and grid process.

Three students are all working on topics related to Heart Modeling and using Nimrod and related tools to run simulations. Randy - Effects of Tissue Level Parameter Variation on Cardiac Output; Amalia - Transmural Heterogeneity of Mechanics in the Normal Heart;  Arielle – Modelling Calcium Ion Transients in the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

Other projects:

Haley – Analysis of Adverse Effects of the Antidepressant EMSAM in Silico; Sirvard – Mechanism for uploading and viewing images scanned by microscope on a multi-tile display wall ; David –Simulation of Particle Incorporation during Electrocodeposition Process; Lynn - Binding Energy and Mechanisms of Conjugated Enediynes with a Ruthenium Complex

Bios

The students Lynn Tai (2nd year Biology), Arielle Yablonovitch (2nd year Physics), David Wong (3rd year Chemical Engineering), Randy Lee (2nd year Bioengineering), Sirvard Nshanyan (3rd year Computer Science/Engineering), Maria Prada-Fernandez (3rd year Bioengineering/Biotechnology) and Haley Hunter-Zinck (3rd year Bioengineering/Bioinformatics) are all from UCSD.

Contacts: Prof David Abramson (david.abramson@infotech.monash.edu.au ) and Rob Gray (rob.gray@infotech.monash.edu.au)